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by philsnow 3y ago
A rare opportunity for the other four-letter comic to be applicable: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-12-13 (Though I suppose this skips Neuralink / step 3 and jumps right to step 4.)
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Sounds like it would be interesting to keep track of the model's responses to the same queries over time. > Gemma-2024-Feb, what do you think of the situation in the South China Sea? > > The situation in the South China Sea is
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by philsnow 3y ago
I have used Mac laptops as my daily driver for the last ten years after being a ride-or-die Linux guy for the 15 years before that. I’m still more comfortable on Linux systems, though. Some things I dearly miss, in no particular order: 1)
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by philsnow 3y ago
the syntax of nginx configs might not be hard, but its semantics (particularly [0]) is eldritch evil I don't relish dealing with [0] https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/depth/ifis.
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by philsnow 3y ago
> what was the last book you read Do they really want to be asking this? People's reading habits are highly personal. There are lots of questions you can't legally / shouldn't ask during an interview, and this is pr
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yt-dlp has sponsorblock integration, just saying
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Criminal fraud issues aside, I would think that all of the artists had a reasonable expectation that the work they were doing would be released, and would then become part of their resume. Since it didn't get released, they collectivel
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by philsnow 3y ago
> Sheets/Excel (MS' greatedst program I regularly refer to Excel as one of the only pieces of software that I consider to be "good" software and that I actually like. Though, I never had to use Excel on a Mac. I hear
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by philsnow 3y ago
I would be just as interested in this for subsystems of my house (HVAC, plumbing, lights, "exterior", cleaning, etc).
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by philsnow 3y ago
My thought has been that they're listening for background sounds to try to beef up the advertising profile they have on me. Maybe there is some super sketchy ad-tech company putting beacons that emit a QR-like UUID audio signature in
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by philsnow 3y ago
If you’re running a couple ec2 instances in one AZ then yeah it’s closer to 100x, but if you wanted to replicate the durability of S3, it would cost you a lot in terms of redundancy (usually “invisible” to the customer) and ongoing R&D
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Ah, found a good discussion of how it works in Linux https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/13/how-statically-link... Is it materially different in openbsd?
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> Both [msyscall and pinsyscall] can only be invoked once by a given process, which is done by the dynamic linker. How are/were static executables handled? I’m a little fuzzy on how execve notices that a given executable is dynamic
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> 2. Wait for a specific cue before responding. I like "What do you think?" "Over."
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> Core Technology Fee — iOS apps distributed from the App Store and/or an alternative app marketplace will pay €0.50 for each first annual install emphasis added on and/or; it seems like Apple is being forced to break down fe
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by philsnow 3y ago
I opened a random python project on my machine in Zed and it automatically loaded up an LSP for python. It looks like it's using the same one as my emacs uses (pyright), but it presents completion choices in a not particularly useful
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by philsnow 3y ago
This is my problem with all "vim modes"; the 90% of bindings that they cover works until your fingers' muscle memory wakes back up and tries `gqip` or some other niche vim thing.
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> packages broke during routine updates > How do emacs people deal with this The same way anybody working with any package system does, by pinning ancient versions and/or just never updating all packages, at least for packages th
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by philsnow 3y ago
Like https://www.duckbillgroup.com/about/ ? There’s probably room in the market.
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> peanut gallery of git experts There are people who use git for its original purpose (kernel devs and very few others) and then there is the remaining 99% of people who essentially use “github flavored git”, using only three or four git
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by philsnow 3y ago
How is it that this MYC protein “has no structure”? As far as I know, protein structure comes out naturally during transcription, as the various amino acids are attracted to each other or repel each other. The mechanisms of protein interac
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> there is usually no mechanism to reevaluate them during the following decades One of my favorite parts about Texas, at least on paper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Advisory_Commission
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by philsnow 3y ago
This is a great point. I ranted about oauth2 relying parties in my other comment but oauth2 providers certainly don’t make it easy for people writing RPs to figure out what scopes are necessary. Even worse is that oauth2 doesn’t provide fo
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This is a perennial issue with Oauth2, but it’s way better than what we had to live with before (pretty much just handing the third party your login). I get exactly why apps ask for the moon when they’re asking for oauth scopes: to reduce f
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> Unreviewed Content > This community has not been reviewed and might contain content inappropriate for certain viewers. View in the Reddit app to continue. Wow, what absolute horseshit. The march continues to acquire marketing signa
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> the Harden Star Grenade, which was produced in a beautiful royal blue coloured bottle I think that color is better described as cobalt blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_glass
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by philsnow 3y ago
This has bitten me before; now my pihole has this line in its dnsmasq configuration server=/archive.is/archive.ph/8.8.8.8 so that even if I'm using cloudflare dns for everything else, it will query 8.8.8.8 for
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Some companies intentionally Gray Rock security reports, because they neither want to attract attention by giving bounties, nor do they want attention for not giving bounties. If they just say nothing, the researcher usually just leaves
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If the author is looking at these comments: you could save some bytes transferred and give the user video controls (pause, scrub, adjust speed etc) by converting the gif to a video with something like ffmpeg -i ext4.gif -pix_fmt yuv420
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by philsnow 3y ago
At a long-ago job, a person cleverer than me wrote a bunch of classes for expressing sets where the members of the sets could change later. The specific use case was for serializing objects into a database containing sets of countries, beca

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